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Members of Protect Pompey’s Innocent travelled to Exeter to confront him before handing him over to the police with a dossier of web logs, chats and images.

Morter, aged 29, of Chamberlain Road, Exeter, who was living in Westfield, Exminster at the time of his previous offences, admitted breach of a SHPO and two counts of possession indecent images of children.

He was jailed for ten months by Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court, who said the search terms which police found on his laptop were ‘disturbing’.

Joel Morter

He told Morter:”You started chatting with what you thought was a young girl on the internet.

“In fact, she was a decoy, so happily, despite the fact you were sending messages with considerable sexual content, which invited her to do various things, no harm was done.

“If you breach this order again, you can expect a sentence measured in years rather than months.”

Mr William Hunter, prosecuting, said the images were found during a routine police inspection of Morter’s computer in May this year.

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There were three movies and three images and one of the movies showed a boy of about of ten masturbating. Police also found evidence of him searching for child images and trying to contact under age girls.

On October 14 he contacted a decoy profile called Millie which had been set up by Protect Pompey’s Innocent.

He took part in sexualised chat and sent a picture of his penis to her.

Mr Barry White, defending, said there were only a very small number of movies and the still images were thumbnails from them.

He said the contact with the decoy was pure fantasy and there was never any possibility of it going any further than chat.